Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation in South America," he said, "is getting much more important, as you all know, in connection with the trip of the President-Elect...
...South American markets will be closed to U. S. business within a year," said Mr. Klein, "unless we capitalize the present opportunity...
Borah or Morrow for State; Mellon for Treasury; D. F. Davis for War; the present Wilbur's brother for the Navy; Donovan for Attorney-General; New or Good for Postmaster-General; Work again for Interior; J. J. Davis for Labor; one of three Juliuses-Klein, Barnes, Rosenwald -for Commerce; some midwesterner for Agriculture, perhaps Publisher Dante Melville Pierce of Des Moines-so ran theory and conjecture. A "truthful declaration" was not expected for some time, perhaps not until the President-elect's return from South America (see page...
Scholarly Dr. Klein knew that in 1926, rubber led the list of U. S. imports, that 1927 imports were valued at $340,000,000. In vivid, effective phrases, he pictured civilization "suddenly and permanently" deprived of rubber...
Point was undeniably given Dr. Klein's prophecies by the occasion which prompted them. He spoke on the eve of the most important day the rubber industry has seen in six years. Fortunately, the day gave happy instead of dismal point to Dr. Klein's vision of a rubberless world. For on Nov. 1, the six-year British experiment in restricting export of rubber from Malaya came to an abrupt and official...